Kim Flachmann, PHD

BIOGRAPHY

Kim Flachmann administers the Writing Program at CSUB—from freshman English through the Graduate Teaching Assistants. She was chosen Outstanding Professor at CSUB in 1998-99. She also was Rhetorician of the Year for the Young Rhetoricians’ Conference in 2007 and was the recipient of the California Association of Teachers of English Excellence in Teaching Award in 2009. In 2016, she won a major award for her contributions to the Kern County educational community and was presented with the CSUB President's Medal for Academic Leadership in 2018. Most recently, she was awarded the 2024 Distinguished Service Award in English from the California Association of Teachers of English. She has published numerous articles on rhetoric and American literature and has written seven textbooks—among them a college reader (The Prose Reader in its eleventh edition), a series of three books for developmental English called Mosaics: Reading and Writing Sentences, Mosaics: Reading and Writing Paragraphs, and Mosaics: Reading and Writing Essays, and Nexus: A Rhetorical Reader for Writers, which combines traditional rhetorical modes with students’ interest in technology.  Her mission has always been to teach others how to write well, which she believes is one of the most important skills for our students.  In fact, she believes that reading and writing are the gateways to each student’s full potential and success in life.